WEST SPRINGFIELD – A man who was arrested Wednesday night by state police after he attempted to flee during a traffic stop turned out to be wanted by the FBI in connection with a 2007 bank robbery, state police said.

The man, identified as Brandon Payne, 27, of Mobile, Alabama, was arrested following a brief chase by police, according to the State Police Office of Media Relations. He was being held on a charge of being a fugitive from justice and is expected to be arraigned Thursday in Springfield District Court.

According to state police, Trooper Paul Aten stopped a car on Route 20 after noticing it had an expired registration. Payne, the driver, gave Aten the name and date of birth of another man who happened to also be wanted by police. As Aten attemped to remove Payne from the car and put him in custody, Payne pushed the trooper and fled on foot.

Other troopers from the Springfield barracks, the state police Community Action Team and the West Springfield police converged on the area to look for Payne.

He attempted to hide in the CVS drug store on Elm Street, but when police surrounded the store, he ran out of the store and was captured in the street, police said.

State police did not learn his name until they ran a check on his fingerprints while he was being booked at the state police barracks. Troopers contacted the FBI, which sent police a wanted poster that had a photograph that matched the man in custody.

According to the wanted poster, Payne was wanted for an armed bank robbery in Valley Grande, Ala. in September 2007. He is alleged to have drive the get-away car. Others involved in the robbery have since been arrested and convicted.

Payne was indicted in absentia by United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama and a federal warrant for his arrest was issued in February 2009 on two counts related to the bank robbery.